HOI4 Dev Diary - Back from summer!

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Hi everyone! The whole team is now back from vacation so its time to kick off dev diaries again!

At the moment we are all working on an unannounced expansion and the 1.8 Husky Update and work is progressing well, so we can start sharing some of it with you guys and gals again. The expansion will remain unannounced until PDXCon so look forward to that. Or better yet, come join us for fun, reveals and gaming in Berlin.

Just because we can’t give the full overview yet doesn’t mean we can’t start revealing stuff in true Paradox tradition, so next week we will be taking a look at France which is getting a full revamp. We are going to be doing our focus trees a bit differently this time around, so expect new nations to get covered in two diaries rather than a single one to better match their scope and structure.

I don't have a lot for today, and spent all my vacation moving and not going to any cool WW2 places, so I will end this diary with a cool WW2 related vacation pic from @Bratyn. Bonus points if you can spot where its from

See you all next week for something a lot more meaty!

 

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USSR is in need of some urgent love.

I would bet money the next expansion is USSR related.

This expansion will not be USSR. Soviet deserves a expansion pretty much for itself and fits better with some mechanic stuff I got planned for the future rather than now. I felt it was good to get this out of the way early because I know a lot of people wanna see Soviet stuff.

 

[Archangel85]

This expansion will not be USSR. Soviet deserves a expansion pretty much for itself and fits better with some mechanic stuff I got planned for the future rather than now. I felt it was good to get this out of the way early because I know a lot of people wanna see Soviet stuff.

Taking that bet could have been some easy money for us, but nooooooo...

 

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The bottom line though: the war in the east was the central and the most decisive theatre in WW2 and it sucks that after 4 years of development, the time for a major overhaul of that very theatre still has not come? Maybe there's a good reason for that, but it would certainly help to communicate that reason.

Like you can probably imagine, the bottom line is that it is a really hard dlc to do, and you can not skimp on it. As you said it is a massively important theater and a popular nation. It takes more time and resources to do than we got right now without massive delays and waiting time for you guys. It is also design wise a tough nut to crack which in turn needs proper time to ripen. In short its the wrong time to do it right now. It doesnt mean we wont touch the theater or work on AI. We always do that, which I think you know looking back.

 

[DebbieElla]

Stop insulting each other and stay on topic of the actual DD.